Category Archives: design

Hot off the Press (the other kind of press)

The online magazine, eGFI, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has just published a story about our collaboration with RISD. Take a look.
http://students.egfi-k12.org/waste-for-life-making-trash-useful/

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Manufacturing Materials @ RISD

Students at RISD have done a significant amount of material investigation many of which are collected in a set on the RISD-Waste4Life Flickr site.  And attached are recipes of some of the most salient experiments.
RISD-W4L Recipes

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One Good Chair

Waste for Life and Mut-Architecture won 4th place for the Cartonero BackFlip Chair in the One Good Chair design competition sponsored by The Sustainable Furnishings Council and World Market Center Las Vegas. The contest’s challenge was this:
Design an original chair that embodies and enhances a particular place, anywhere in the world but one you know [...]

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